Matthew 3:12

Free Bible Version

He has his winnowing tool ready in his hand. He will clean up the threshing floor and gather the wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn the chaff with fire that can't be put out.”

Cross References

Job 21:18

Are they blown along like straw in the wind? Does a tornado come in and carry them away?

Psalm 1:4

But it's not like that for the wicked! They are like chaff, blown away by the wind.

Psalm 35:5

Let them be like chaff blown by the wind; let the angel of the Lord drive them away.

Isaiah 1:31

Your strong people will become like tinder, and their work will become like a spark. They will burn together, and nobody will be able to put out the flames.

Isaiah 17:13

The nations roar like the roaring of crashing waves. But he confronts them, and they run far away, blown by the wind like chaff on the mountains, like tumbleweeds driven by a storm.

Isaiah 27:4

I'm not angry anymore. If there are thorns and brambles I would go and fight them, burning them all up,

Isaiah 28:28

Grain used for bread is easily damaged so you don't thresh it forever. When you drive your cart wheels over it with your horses, you don't crush it.

Isaiah 30:24

The oxen and donkeys that help cultivate the earth will eat good greens and grain, spread with fork and shovel.

Isaiah 41:16

You will throw them into the air, the wind will carry them away, and a storm will scatter them. Then you will be happy in the Lord, and boast about the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 5:24

In the same way fire burns up stubble and dry grass falls down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers disintegrate into dust. For they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty, and have treated with contempt what the Holy One of Israel has said.

Isaiah 66:24

They will go out and see the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me. The worms that eat them won't die, the fire that burns them won't go out, and everyone who sees them will be horrified.

Jeremiah 15:7

I will scatter you with a winnowing fork from every town in the country. I will destroy my people and take away their children because they refuse to give up their evil ways.

Jeremiah 17:27

But if you refuse to listen to me and keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will set its gates alight with a fire that can't be put out, and it will burn down Jerusalem's fortresses.

Jeremiah 4:11

At that time the people of Jerusalem will be told, “A burning wind from the bare hills of the desert is blowing toward Jerusalem, but not to blow away the chaff or the dust.

Jeremiah 51:2

I will send foreign soldiers to attack Babylon to winnow her and turn her country into a wasteland—they will attack her from all directions when her time of trouble comes.

Jeremiah 7:20

So this is what the Lord God says: Watch! My furious anger will be poured out on this country, on people and animals, on the orchards and the crops in the field. It will burn and nobody will be able to put it out.

Hosea 13:3

Consequently they will be like the morning mist, like early morning dew, like chaff blowing away from the threshing floor, like smoke from a chimney.

Amos 9:9

See what I'm doing! I will give the command, and the people of Israel will be shaken among the nations like flour through a sieve, and nothing will fall to the ground.

Malachi 4:1

Watch out! The day is coming—it burns like an oven—when the proud and the wicked will be burned like straw. When that day comes they will be completely burned up, root and branch, says the Lord Almighty.

Matthew 13:30

Let them both grow until harvest, and then at harvest-time I'll tell the reapers to first gather the weeds, tie them up into bundles and burn them, and then gather the wheat and store it in my barn.’”

Matthew 13:41

The Son of man will send out his angels, and they will gather up every sinful thing and everyone who does evil,

Matthew 13:42

and will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.

Matthew 13:43

Then those who live right will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Anybody with ears should be listening!

Luke 3:16

John replied and explained to everybody: “Yes, I am baptizing you in water. But the one who is coming is more important than me, and I'm not worthy to undo his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

Luke 3:17

His winnowing fork is in his hand and he's ready to separate the wheat from the chaff on his threshing floor. He'll gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with fire that can't be extinguished.”

John 15:2

He cuts off every one of my branches that doesn't bear fruit. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so it can bear even more.